
| 1990 *Hypnotic Clambake showcases their talent while street performing at Fanuel Hall's Quincy Market in downtown Boston. Thousands of interested tourists throw change in the hat and purchase the group's first cassette release entitled Past Lives. Within months, the band records and produces their first CD entitled Square Dance Messiah. |
| 1991 *Hypnotic Clambake tours in a Chevy 20 van with a U-Haul trailer across the Northeast to most every major city on the map. While building a cult following, the band also sends their material to national music magazines, newspapers, college radio stations, and alternative FM radio stations. Within months, Hypnotic Clambake has major press nationally (Rolling Stone) and is receiving radio play on a variety of stations across the country (Dr. Demento Show). |
| 1992 * Hypnotic Clambake is nominated at The Boston Music Awards for outstanding roots and original music act. |
| 1993 * The band's touring expands across the Northeast into the Midwest. * Hypnotic Clambake's second CD entitled Gondola to Heaven is released. |
| 1994 *An intense six-month tour introduces the group to new fans in North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa and Illinois. |
| 1995 * The group releases their third CD entitled Kent the Zen Master. This CD favors a more experimental period in the band's approach to creating and recording music. *While performing in Austin, Texas, at South by Southwest, Hypnotic Clambake impresses an appreciative music agent for Barnacle Bill's, located in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Leaving the New England winter behind, the band spends a month playing music for the locals and tourists at Barnacle Bill's in the evenings while enjoying the beautiful waters of Saint Thomas in the day times. *The group goes cross-country and through Canada performing for new and larger crowds in the Rockies and on the west coast. |
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| 1997 *With the band's recognition expanding, Hypnotic Clambake performances compliment other national recording artist's performances at events across the North American continent. |
| 1998 *Frozen Live, Vol. 1 is the band's first live CD, which was recorded at shows in the Northeast, and the deep South on mobile digital recording equipment. On this CD, Clambake gives a variety of musical styles their own Hypnotic twist. * The band is invited to perform with PHISH at the Lemon Wheel in Maine. * Carter Beauford, the Dave Matthews Band's drummer, mentions Hypnotic Clambake on MTV as being the band that most influenced him that year while touring. |
| 1999 *VH-1 Jeopardy mentions Hypnotic Clambake as being one of the strangest band names in the country. ("Who is Hypnotic Clambake?") *Hypnotic Clambake T-shirts are worn proudly on NBC's Conan O'Brien show by Preston & Hanes' Rock and Roll Comedy Circus of Death. *National television and radio commercial spots air for several months using Clambake's material. |
| 2000 *In addition to numerous performances, the group begins recording their fourth studio CD to be released in the summer of 2001. *Hypnotic Clambake's music starts to take hold in European markets with sales increasing in Italy and Belgium. |
2001-2002-2003 *Hypnotic Clambake takes a three year intensive study of world music. Focusing on the music of the Middle East, the music of Louisiana, and several other cultures, The group explores a variety of different approaches to the constructs of their original sound and embellishes and adds new material along with honoring the standard tunes that have given Hypnotic Clambake renowned recognition by others in the music field and audiences of all ages and nationalities. |
2004 *The band goes back into the studio and records one of their most challenging albums titled MAYONNAISE. It is a great condiment and full of fantabulous grooves. Clarinetist, Tim Hull, becomes a prominent part of Hypnotic Clambake's sound and reveals his talent as a studio engineer on the group's fifth studio CD. Hi-lighted performances in the year 2004 include: Alfred University and Saint Lawrence University. Two great learning institutions and party schools! |
| 2005 *Welcoming JoAnn Vaccaro to the band, JoAnn captures Hypnotic Clambake audiences attention with her high energy electric guitar performances coupled with her elegant vocal performances on such tunes as "11th Chapter Saloon" and "Far Away Cows. " *Amongst some of the year's highlights, Hypnotic Clambake performs live on "WRUR" FM, hosted by Scott Regan and Hypnotic Clambake's O.U.R. Music Festival celebrates it's ninth year. The group ended this year with a performance of original music to some classic silent movies from the years 1901-1928. |
| 2006 Hypnotic Clambake hosts and celebrates the 10year of their O.U.R. Music Festival. Highlights of this year's performances include cruising and performing in the Carribean sea. The group visits, Aruba, Jamaica, Grand Caymen, Trinadad, Cazumel, and finishes their tour with a visit to New Orleans. The group films a video of their song "EdMcWoman" and releases it on YouTube. |
| 2007 |